Lantern.



G. B. CARSON.

LANTERN. APPLIOATION FILED MAB..25,1912 1,031,420., Patented July 2,1912.

W nsses 4 ImferYfoT' a (iv/flag ZZZ/19012 UNITED STATES OFFICE.

CHARLES B. CARSON, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR TO THE ADAMS 6t; WESTLAKE COMPANY, A CORPORATION OF ILLINOIS.

LANTERN.

Specification of Letters Patent.

, Patented July 2, 1912.

Application filed March 25, 1912. Serial Nd 686,033.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, CHARLES B. Gnnson,

cially adapted for use by railroad men; its

object being to, provide improved means for looking a normally swinging bail for V the purpose ofbetter adapting the lantern for use in slgnaling.

The invent-ion consists in a structure such as is hereinafter fully described, and as illustrated in the accompanying drawings,

Figure 1 is a detail side elevation of a lantern embodying the invention; Fig. 2 is "a detail showing the locking mechanism,

of loops integral with the to the bail being free to swing; Fig. 3 is a similar View illustrating the operation of locking the bail; Fig. 4 is a similar detail showing the bail engaged by the lock; Fig. 5 is a detail of the locking mechanism showing a modified form of construction; and Fig. 6 is a similar detail of the modification shown in Fig. 5, the device being applied to a different type of guard frame.

The lantern 10 is shown 'in Figs. 1 to 5 as being provided with a wire guard frame 11, the bail cars 12, 13, being in the form ring 14 of the frame, these loops exten ing through eyes, as 15, formed at the upper ends of upright elements of the guard frame.

The hail lock in the construction illustrated in Figs. 1 to 4 takes the form of a 'hook, as 16, 17, outstanding from and inor both of its sides or ends is thrust downwardly through the ear, its loop being caught into the hook 16.

While there is shown in .the drawings locking means for coiiperatin'g with both ends of the bail and'this construction is preferred for convenience, the bail will be securely held if locked at one end only.

As shown in Fig. 5, in lieu of the integral hook 16 a hook 21 may be formed on a sheet metal clip 22 secured to the guard frame.

, In the construction illustrated in Fig. 6, the invention is applied to a so-called steel guard frame, that is to say, a guard frame made in part of sheet metal cut into strips.

In practice the bail cars 23 of such a lautern are also of sheet metal, consisting of a clip. riveted to one of the uprights of a guard frame and n'ojecting upwardly, and being apertured to form a loop for engagement by the bail.

As a convenient means for applying the present invention to this type of lantern, the bail ear clip 24 is provided with a wing .25, shaped into a hook 26 for engaging and locking the bail 18.

I claim as my invention 1. In a lantern, a pair of outstanding bail ears in loop form, a hook located below one of the ears, and a bail havin an elongated loop interengaged with one o the ears and being engageable with the hook.

2. In a lantern, in combination, a wire guard frame comprising upright and C11- cumferential elements, a pair of the up-' CHARLES B. CARSON.

Witnesses:

. LOUIS K. GILLSON, E. KLATCHER. 

